This was my first post-16th century dress. With time, it became slightly too tight, so I decided to re-design
the front of it (I like to be able to eat dinner even while
corseted...). I had already used all the seam allowance to get some
extra millimetres, so I added a fake vest and blouse, making it both a
bit bigger and a bit more elaborate. Blog post of the re-make. I also added more stuff to the hat.

1876 dress (May 2016)

Research of skirt support garments here
Construction of over skirt here
And photo session of final result here

1861 Dress (2015)

Made
from a pattern in Pattern's of Fashion, to wear at "the Day of the Big
Crinoline" here in Linköping. My blog post about the dress here,

Regency ball gown, 1810's, 2011
I
made this for a Jane Austen ball. When I started, I did not like the
regency fashion, so I decided to make it tasteless but fun. No attempts
at all at using HA materials. The hat was inspired by the BBC movie, but
did not turn out quite as expected. But I guess not all outfits gets to
be favourites...

I
like the look of the looped up back of this dress, but I did not get
along well with the fabric - the silk taffeta was very unlike the cotton
linen and wool I usually use, so there are some weird wrinkling. I also
need to make a hat and learn how to make a bigger hairdo. (Update: I
saw the same wrinkling in one of Anne Boleyn's silk dresses in BBC's
Wolf Hall series, so now I feel better about this - if BBC's costumers
can accept these wrinkles, I can accept them too :-) ) A blog post with
more pictures and some info about how I made the hairdo in the upper
picture can be found here.

English 1500's (2012)
This costume
is from the fantastic book The Tudor Tailor. The pictures shows it with and without the black over-gown, and with different headwear.

Medieval, inspired by late 1300's (2007)
I
had moved to a larger city and met other people in medeival costuming,
which meant learning lots of stuff and getting inspired. I updated the
red-green medeival with a more HA deeper neckline. I also made a purple
wool dress with buttoned sleeves, here worn under the red one. Also a
new hat (still a bit weird, but based on period paintings and
manuscripts instead of a book). The purple dress is entirely hand sewn.
Making all the buttons and button holes for the sleeves took a lot of
time. I even got into a flash of doing it all the way, so the lacing
bands for both dresses are made by card-weaving, of silk buttonhole
thread.

Medeival-ish (made ca 2004)
The
second medeival dress, after learning that princess seams was not the
way to go. Made in a lovely but not so HA wool crepe I got very cheap at
a small but very nice local fabric store (the owner liked me and had
realized that no-one would ever pay what this fabric was really worth,
anyway, so she could as well sell it to someone who would appreciate it
and did not mind the few small moth holes in it). Meant to be 1420-ish,
but based on a painting where you could only see the dress from behind,
so it's quite speculative.With a hat thing based on something the book
"Hats and headdresses".

Vaguely medeival (made ca 2002)
My
second ever historical dress, worn over the first one (a light blue
linen gown with dark blue side gores in skirt *shudder*). Not the most
historically accurate (HA), but I was very proud of it when I made it.
And when I made this I had learned that it was not HA to have a linen
gown, so it's wool. One step on the HA road :-) This gown has now been
unpicked and the fabric reused for a Tudor gown.

Steampunk

Blog post here
This one also won an award in an online costuming competition (blog-bragging here).

Steam punk Victorian (2013)
Made
for an event from garments I already had: the bustle dress bustle,
skirt and hat, a military inspired blouse, and belt and necklace that
was gifts. Two belts became a strap for a small leather bag.

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About me

I got into historical costuming when I went to a medeival fair close to home, and made my first kind-of-medeival-ish clothing 15 years ago. Now, I am into several time epochs, with 1550-1580 and 1880's being my favourites, along with steampunk. I work as research engineer, and do costuming very on and off, when I have energy left and are not caught up in some other project.